Brief Description of the Artistic Actions of Claudia Sandoval Romero

 
Artist´s Work, performance, 2012

“Artist´s Work” is a performance that took place at the exhibition “Keine Zeit” of the Museum 21er Haus, Vienna, and that consisted in cleaning the Museum during the opening of the exhibition.
This way, wearing the appropriate clothes, an apron and a broom, the action of the cleaning lady being present subtly during the opening insists on calling to attention the most diverse activities that artists seem to be determined to carry out in order to make a living.
The action also focuses on questioning the institutional space in contrast to the daily life of artists. It adapts the general tendency towards the schizophrenic labors of artists in the contemporary economy into a subtle performance and it is from this that the performance title emerges: “Artist´s work”, where real life is brought inside the museum.

 

For Sale, intervention using an ad space, 2012

The contemporary post-fordist dynamics make us believe that all destination of time must aim profit.
The risk that this imposes is the every time more narrow limit between art and art market.
Thus the action “For Sale”, where the word “Kunst” is brought as a commercial inside a journal, points to this tendency of equalizing art with art market, leaving aside the emancipatory character of art.
“For Sale” is a commercial of 100X100mm inside the journal “Profil”, published during the week of the 10th and 16th of September, 2012.

 

  

  

    
The Collection, action, 2012

“The Collection” is an action that consists in using one salary as an assistant in a kinder garden company, to invite artists to create a piece for the price of 50€ to be destined to a collection.
The proposal points to the different activities that artists must carry out in order to get the economical resources to develop their work, being most of these activities outside of the artistic institution.
It also referrers to the schizophrenia that contemporary capitalistic dynamics impose to the ones of the creative area, as their labors are divided between dealing with the creation of works from a high philosophical understanding of society, while in their practical lives they are impelled to develop underpaid jobs for which they are overqualified, like changing nappies and cleaning dirty noses.
The proposal intends to open the limits of the institutionalization of art and artists. It is a woven dialog between artists and the economic scenario, and it is, within itself, a conversation between artists, reflecting about the limits imposed by the institution. It is thus a collective reflection about the own place occupied in the art market.
Each piece represents their personal life, their questions about terms like “career”, “future” and “market”, and the most intimate talks.
The young artists invited to participate of the action that are part of the Master in Critical Studies, program of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; they are Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Ilona Braun, Jan Müller, Julia Tirler, Kai Maier-Rothe, María Elena Rodríguez, Nathalie Koger, Nina Prader, Martina Kigle, and Thomas Schoiswohl.
There are the most various reasons why to make a collection. From love of art, to search of business opportunity. There are also reasons like the evasion of taxes and the cleansing of family names. “The Collection” here presented is a shared question that is crossed by the love and respect for the work of the artists here invited, as well as for the indescribable feeling of release of having a life surrounded by pieces that remind what matters, art pieces that make the pass graceful.
Finally, the image that accompanies “The Collection” is a gift of Mira, a Russian girl of one of the kindergartens where the “Collector” works. The drawing serves as a metaphor for the action where the art institution is impelled by the pure and immanent necessity of art.

 

Holograms of Deportation, 6 digital prints of 50x54cm, 2010

In “Holograms of Deportation” three portraits of deported people are taken from the internet to create three dot matrix holograms. These holograms were placed on the walls of Berlin, being exposed to the interaction of the pedestrians. The portraits belong to three deported people from Germany and only during a certain time of the day, when the daylight hits in the proper angle, the simple mirrors reproduce the images of the deported, showing them as a sort of ghosts brought back to Germany.

Essay About the Night, 26 digital prints, 50x75cm, 2007.

In “Essay About the Night” the portrait is done to a projected image of the subject in his/her home, substituting the material subject, pointing to the idea of the photographic subject as a representation.
At the same time this creates a visual common denominator that unites two opposed worlds of Sao Paulo: the one of the sex workers and on the young “party people”. This way, two aspects of the same night are exhibited in the essay.